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- Oct 21, 2019
Granted, that dentist probably had english at school, but that might have been decades ago. Finding a middle aged bureaucrat or medical person who speaks good english is going to be a coin toss. It's also much harder to clearly communicate medical issues to a stranger than to get along with friends.Not a German, but I have spent some time there, have German friends and I'm really suspicous about that. In my experience, Germans typically have a very good grasp of English. She might never have needed any German to get medical care, unless there's a very specific doctor or possible some specific medical terms that he's never used in English. It's not impossible, but I'm not buying it. Maybe her mouth was so fucked up by whatever she was seeing a dentist about that he trouble understanding her?
It also says "Beratung, auch mittels Fernsprecher" ie he advised her on the phone as well as in person, adding to the difficulty. If she couldn't even talk she probably would have gone for emergency treatment, rather than extensively talking to the dentist on the phone, which this implies.
If she isn't fluent in german she should have taken a translator with her, but i've heard the sentiment: "It's Germany, why would I need german?" from more than one American, so it kind of checks out.